(Chapter 7, oh and a suspense cure for Mamabella and BossaNovaBaby24)
Arriving at the hangar bay, Adama saw the Chief and went to talk to him.
"Chief, are the raptors ready?"
"Ummm… Yes sir, we're just waiting on Doc Cottle to arrive. He was caught up in treating a patient." The Chief glanced over Adama's shoulder and saw the Doctor enter. "Actually, here is now sir. Raptors are ready."
"Thank you Chief."
Adama and Cottle boarded the raptor.
"Sorry Admiral, one of my patients needed urgent treatment. What's the situation?" asked the Doctor.
"Colonial One has been struck by some stray debris. We have lost contact with them. From what Hotdog said, there appears to be no structural damage but the ship was rocked quite severely so we can probably expect some casualties." explained Adama.
The only reply was an irritated grunt from the Doctor.
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/Back on Colonial One/
Laura looked up at the girl's puzzled face.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
Gaia tore her eyes from the woman's scared torso and looked at her.
"Umm… Nothing, just looking for the wound is all." She took a deep breath and went back to looking.
She lifted the President's shirt a little higher. There was so much blood that it was hard to tell where it was coming from. Deciding that she would have to use other means of locating the wound, she put her hands on the President's stomach and started feeling around. She pressed on something hard and the President gasped in pain. Bingo. She ripped some material from a near by bed sheet and, as gently as possible, wiped some of the blood around the wound away. As she wiped she noticed two long, white objects poking out of her skin. She turned to look at Laura, she was starting to feel the effects of the blood loss and looked disoriented. Placing her left hand firmly on the wound and her right hand on top, she pressed down, the bleeding slowed.
A few seconds passed and she heard footsteps. She looked up to find Tory standing in the doorway.
"Where have you been?" demanded Matthews.
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"Sir, we're approaching Colonial One now, preparing to dock."
A few seconds later they docked and disembarked the raptor.
"You two." Adama pointed at two marines. "Go and find out what happened with communications. Doctor?" he turned to look at Cottle who in response set to work, giving orders to his team.
"Alright people we handle this like triage, if they're conscious, they can wait."
They all moved off to find the passengers. Bill made straight for the President's quarters.
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Gaia stared at Tory, waiting for an answer. Staring at the President she answered.
"I..uh..went to call for help over the wireless but the com system is down." explained Tory.
Gaia shook her head.
"Your first priority is the President, if you had found injured people and were tending to them then that's understandable, but you didn't and you weren't so why weren't you here?" she questioned once more. "It's not your job to contact Galactica for help, there are other people to do that."
Tory looked at her hands and replied.
"I figured you'd be here so I thought it would be okay."
"Tory, what if I had been incapacitated?"
Realisation hit her. "Oh, I didn't think.." Gaia cut her off.
"No you didn't think, try doing a little more of that next time will you please. Now I need you to come here and put pressure on this wound."
Reluctantly, Tory shuffled through the junk, over to them.
"Right, now, once I move my hands, put yours in the exact same place ok?"
Tory nodded. "Ok now." Gaia removed her hands and Tory quickly recovered the wound and applied pressure.
The President was now unconscious and she needed help soon. Gaia stood to go find it. Panicking slightly Tory spoke.
"Where are you going?"
"To find help, she needs it." Gaia exited the quarters and looked down the hall, she saw Doc Cottle and two nurses tending to one of the President's marines. Next to him was Admiral Adama, looking down at the marine.
"Sir, Doc Cottle, in here." Adama and Cottle looked up to see Ensign Matthews point into the President's quarters. She was covered in blood. Cottle turned and said something to one of the nurses, stood and started towards her, a nurse and the Admiral with him.
Cottle and the nurse walked straight past her and went in. Adama and Matthews stood just outside the door. They could hear Cottle tell Tory to "Move her ass out of the way". She did so and shakily got up and stepped back.
The Admiral turned to look at the Ensign and now noticed her attire. She was wearing the regulation sweat pants and a tan tank top that was no longer tan, but crimson.
"Who's blood is that?" he asked.
Gaia who was watching the Doctor work on Roslin, looked at Adama and then down at herself.
"The President's sir." she answered.
His heart stopped, he could not fully see Laura's body, so he did not notice all the blood that had seeped from her. He had only known that she was hurt, not to what extent.
"What happened to her?"
"Everything in there got tossed around a bit, including her. I'm guessing she came off her bed and landed wrong because she has two ribs poking out of her, just beneath her bra." replied Gaia.
Bill felt his chest constrict. Laura had been hurt badly. Please let her be alright. He begged.
Cottle and the nurse lifted Laura's limp form onto a stretcher and carried her out. Bill, Gaia and Tory followed. They boarded the raptor and once on Galactica, they made immediately for sickbay. Once there Cottle and his remaining team got to work on their patient. Now feeling slightly calmer, Tory turned to look at Gaia.
"You're hurt." stated Tory.
Bill hadn't noticed before because she was covered in blood anyway, but the girl had a deep cut to her right temple and blood streaming down her face. Gaia looked at Tory.
"I'll live."
(Yes I know Laura's wound was gory, but no wound is a nice wound so yea. Oh and I did rip into Tory a little, not coz I hate her or anything. Just that if anyone did what Tory did, I'd let 'em know it was stupid, which i think Gaia did. Sorry to all Tory fans out there. Oh and please tell me if I got Doc Cottle down ok. Cheers )
